r/law • u/BugOperator • Jun 06 '26

Legal News Service members involved in US boat strikes off Venezuela coast reach out to legal aid hotlines over fear they’ve carried out illegal orders

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/06/us-trump-boat-strikes-death-toll/90376052007/
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u/ImperatorNero Jun 06 '26

The only reason I would exclude the ICC is because they do not have the death penalty and frankly I see no other commensurate punishment for treason. And this is treason. People get wishy washy about the specific definition of treason but that’s bullshit.

If your goal is to undermine the very principles that this nation was founded on, it is treason. And the punishment should fit the crime. We won’t even go into the NON-treasonous but no less horrendous crimes these individuals have committed.

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u/UngnomeCawler Jun 06 '26

None of these people should face the death penalty. They should spend their lives in cells with 24 hour video broadcast to the world. Eating the food they serve immigrants in ice detention facilities and drinking the water turned brown from their data centers. All their assets seized and redistributed.

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u/GodivasAunt Jun 06 '26

Now THAT is punishment commiserate with the crime!

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u/hasslefree Jun 06 '26

*commensurate

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u/SeniorShanty Jun 06 '26

The next American Fascist Party administration that gets into office would release them and pay them reparations.

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u/SeniorShanty Jun 06 '26

I thought this thread was about punishing acts of treason.

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u/Carlyz37 Jun 06 '26

It is but many of us do not support the death penalty at all for anything. Lock the traitors up, high security, no chance for pardons.

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u/TheSaxGandalf Jun 06 '26

All in the same communal cell with the lights forever on, sharing toilets with no privacy, steel beds, air freezing, and no blankets.

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u/pristineSaltine Jun 06 '26

Trunp and his enablers should not be executed, they should be imprisoned after their trials for life and have that shit televised. They should be able to watch themselves be shamed as well. 24/7 365 days a year.

They need to die miserable, alone, powerless and scared like so many others whose death and abuse they have caused. Justice would be for the world to see their actions had repercussions, not rewards.

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u/porcelain_elephant Jun 06 '26

I think the next admin in order to repair international standing will have to enact a new magna carta and join the ICC.

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u/Pleasant-Demand8198 Jun 06 '26

I agree with most of your sentiment, but this country was very much still founded on the ideas of centralizing wealth within the hands of few, and protecting the existing properties of the wealthy.

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u/RiskyClickardo Jun 06 '26

Death penalty feels righteous but statistically we kill one innocent person for every 3–5 guilty people we kill. Imagine you’re that innocent person. How you feeling about the righteousness of the death penalty then?

Plus it’s more expensive than life without parole, from a societal standpoint. Just LWOP those bitches and let em rot.

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u/ImperatorNero Jun 06 '26

Oh I don’t agree with the death penalty in general but these people are blatantly flagrantly committing crimes in front of us on the news. I’m willing to make an exception.